she calls me...mom

the youngest child of my loins, who i shall call "elle", is a writer. she writes and writes- all the time. everywhere. in notebooks, on receipt paper at work, on napkins, on whatever is at hand. so what i'm saying is...she writes! as a result of all this writing, she also THINKS a lot about writing. she thinks a lot about her stories- who, what, where, etc., etc. and as a result of all her thinking, i get some really interesting phone calls. a few years ago, she was heavily into the harry potter books. she was a fan and a fan-atic!! ya dig? although she loved j.k. rowling's writing and her books, elle decided it would be cool to write her OWN harry potter book, continuing the series. she had quite a good story started and it actually sounded a lot like rowling's books. but she had a lot of ideas that she needed help with. so, here are some examples of those interesting calls:

ring ring(pretending phones still sound like that)

me-hello

she-i'm working on my book and i'm at the part where ron and harry are in potions class and so what i need is for you to come up with a good potion that harry would easily get mixed up and hermione could straighten out.

me-um....um....

she-and also, can you think of any names that would be good for hermione to call malfoy and his friends?

me-ummmmmm.........

or something like this:

ring ring

me-hello

she-mom! i need you to come up with about three or four joke toys that fred and george might have in their shop.

me-um......ok, um.........

she-what might be a good name for a muggle who is part greek and part german?

me-hello, hello.....i can't hear you, you're breaking up..........

she-MOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!!

and more recently, she has been working on a story about these girls with super powers. so here is an example of one of the calls about that:

ring ring

me-hello

she-so, ok, i've got five girls and they each have a different power corresponding to an earth element. i already have earth, air, fire and water. what can a super power be that corresponds with spirit? and i've made a time-line for each of their lives, but if someone was around in the 70's, would they still be blah blah blah some confusing question..............

me-uh.....um...........

yeah, the gal keeps me on my toes! and i do sometimes come up with an idea or two! she is so imaginative, sometimes in a little world all her own! i really do believe she will be a published writer some day and when she does, i'll be right here, ready to answer the phone!

so grateful for:
1. daughters who are writers
2. daughters who make me a grandma
3. grandsons